Schedule

2017-2018 Schedule: The Fallacy of YouthHere at FBC we’re mixing things up in 2017. This is the year of the Long Read.

Gone are the days of books corresponding with the weekly NFL schedule. This year, we’re reading just three books—three very, very long books—and we’re reading them when we want, in whatever order we want, and at whatever pace we want. Call it Laissez-Faire Football Book Club.

So, without further ado—okay, with just minimal ado to point out that (1) Jay Cutler is out! That guy with the crazy giraffe neck and/or an untested rookie are in; (2) Adam is still not watching football; (3) Ryan might be secretly watching football, but who can say for sure—here is your 2017-2018 Schedule:

In Search of Lost Timeby Marcel Proust: That’s right, we’re reading Proust. All of it? Some of it? Who knows. All we can say for sure is we’re starting with the Lydia Davis translation of Swann’s Way.

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser: According to the blurb on Amazon—and who doesn’t trust our pals at Amazon—”few novels have undertaken to track so relentlessly the process by which an ordinary young man becomes capable of committing a ruthless murder.”

Compulsion by Meyer Levin: This is a fictionalized account of the Leopold-Loeb murder case that the Saturday Review called “a graphic and absorbing reconstruction of an infamous crime.”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2016-2017 ScheduleAnother year brings another season of not watching for NFL football — and a new set of books. This year, Football Book Club is very excited that Tom Brady will miss four games due to Deflategate. And we’re almost as excited to be reading some great titles by the likes of Roxane Gay, Don DeLillo, Elena Ferrante, and Masamune Shirow.

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2015-2016 ScheduleAs professional football enters its 113th season in the United States, the Patriots look to defend their title, and Roger Goodell rolls around naked in a kiddie pool full of moist, unmarked bills, Football Book Club will be breaking up with the NFL and reading the following titles — everything from fiction and nonfiction to poetry and graphic novels. Among some of this season’s highlights are Steven Millhauser’s Edwin Mullhouse, Carmen Giménez Smith’s Milk and Filth, and Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru’s League of Denial.